When the execution was by beheading or dismemberment, or such other mode as caused the effusion of blood, the Christians were careful to gather this up in any way they could.
This and nothing else restrains them in the frenzy of their hatred from beheading him at once.
La Vallette retaliated by beheading some of his captives and firing their heads at the Turks from his cannon.
This accident so vexed him, that instead of beheading the two princes, he threw away his sabre, and ran after his horse.
A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp.
An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.
The act of beheadingor state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
Considering the time--a time when Elizabeth of England found that England ready to support her in beheading her woman-cousin, when Charles IX.
Beheading the King, a Whitsuntide pageant in Bohemia, iv.
Semic in Bohemia, beheading the king on Whit-Monday at, iv.
Niederpoering in Bavaria, pretence ofbeheading Whitsuntide mummer at, iv.
Wurmlingen in Swabia, pretence of beheading a leaf-clad mummer at Whitsuntide at, iv.
The hanging and beheading were confined to cases of murder and treason; in a simple affair of arms the vanquished party was only disarmed and led forth ignominiously from the lists.
His interest or his leisure would indeed appear to have been exhausted for some time, since only two small etchings, "The Beheading of St John the Baptist" (B.
They also questioned me as to whether I had heard that a young sahib had crossed over the frontier with a large army, which the Jong Pen of Taklakot had defeated, beheading the sahib and the principal members of the expedition.
There the Tibetans were on the point of beheading my master.
Scheherezade, the generous, beautiful young daughter of the vizier, like another Esther, resolves to risk her life in order to save the poor maidens of her city, whom the sultan is marrying and beheading at the rate of one a day.
Close to this is the beheadingof the said Saint, a very beautiful work.
John the Baptist, beginning with the appearing of the Angel to Zacharias the priest, up to his beheading and to the burial that his disciples gave him.
Thirty executioners, with their assistants, found constant employment in beheading the condemned.
It was welcome intelligence to Ferdinand, and he finished the work they had thus commenced by hanging and beheading the adherents of Wallenstein without mercy.
And likewise another, in which was theBeheading of S.
Even such are the many drawings, also by the hand of Francesco, that are in our book; and particularly that of the Beheading of S.
He was the most habitual bridegroom in English history; he had an almost confirmed habit of beheadinghis wives or otherwise ridding himself of them.
He felt that his best energies were being put into his essays in defense of liberty, on the freedom of the press and on the justice of the beheading of Charles, in which service he sacrificed his sight.
He was not chief in the councils which resulted in the beheading of Charles I.
According to Frizzi, Niccolò, Marquis of Este, after beheading Parisina, ordered all the faithless wives of Ferrara to be treated in like manner.
FN#347] Such an execution would be contrary to Moslem law: but people would look leniently upon the peccadillo of beheading or sacking a faithless wife.
Sir Edmond Calvert, never having been convinced that beheading the lawful sovereign of England would be prudent, had opposed it from the start.
The Dutchmen are claiming that after Parliament gets around to beheading the king, it plans to take over all the patents granted by the Crown.
The barbarian who suggested the policy of beheading Elizabeth little contemplated the change of condition which his speech would bring about.
In one village they cruelly tormented 150 women and children after the men were fled, beheading the women, and dashing out the brains of the children.
The Mahdi was prepared to pardon him, but Khalifa Abdullah insisted on beheading him, which was done; this cruel act terrified the remainder of the tribe.
A thief was deprived of a hand and a foot; adultery between married persons was punished by beheading the man and stoning the woman, but in the latter case a necessary proof was that the woman should be with child.
